Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Artist Says Trump Supporters "Deserve" To Die

The Huffington Post attained new journalistic heights
recently (that’s sarcasm, for those of you at Berkeley), when it published an
article asserting that those who had the audacity to vote for Donald Trump
deserve to have their “Podunk towns” incinerated in a nuclear fire. (The Post
deleted the post, after receiving complaints from readers. Hypersensitive
wusses! Probably ran for their "safe spaces!").

Chris
Cali, an Oakland-based artist (there’s a shock) and blogger, composed the
article entitled “Trump Supporters Deserve to Die More Than I Do” to express
his anger over the President’s use of the largest non-nuclear bomb in the
U.S.’s arsenal against Afghanistan, apparently afraid that it would somehow
bring the United States to the brink of war with North Korea.

Earth
to Chris: the U.S. is, and has been, on the brink of war with North Korea.
Using the “mother of all bombs” (MOAB) could only help deter any possible hostilities.

Cali
from Cali declared: “The thought of a world in which mentally unstable
dictators are hurling nuclear warheads at one another is pretty terrifying,
especially if you’re a person like me, who lives in a major U.S. city. San
Francisco might not be at the top of the target list, but I’m betting it’s
higher up than some sh*thole town in Nebraska. In fact, the majority of states
where Trump supporters continue to wear their ‘MAGA’ caps and give a solid
thumbs-up to the putrid dumpster fire of an administration he’s been running so
far don’t contain a single town where a ‘radical Islamic terrorist’ would even
stop to take a sh*t in a Walmart bathroom, let alone one that a crazed N.
Korean leader would want to nuke into oblivion.”

Speaking of the “mentally
unstable,” nuclear war would be “pretty” terrifying to “a person like” you,
since you live in a big coastal city? Yeah, the rest of us are fine with seeing
cities “nuked into oblivion.” I wish your contention that terrorists wouldn’t
stoop to poop in a small-town Wal-Mart bathroom were true. If it were, it
wouldn’t reflect badly on the small town.

But, don’t
stop him, he’s on a roll.

He
continued: “The fact that the first Americans to be vaporized or poisoned with
radiation in the coming nuclear war will be the ones who tried to stop this
crazy train from leaving the station just seems kind of…unfair.” He then went
on to state that Trump supporters “want you to know how much they hate
immigrants and blacks and Jews and gays and women and trans people in public
bathrooms.”

He concluded: “If a bunch of these
hypocrites who chanted ‘lock her up’ overdose on Oxy and decimate their Podunk
towns, honestly, the human species will be better off without them. It’s
practically Darwinian. These are the people who deserve to have their towns
annihilated.”

The vast majority of Trump
supporters- and conservatives for that matter- have no animosity whatsoever
towards immigrants, blacks, Jews, gays, women, or “trans people,” let alone
hatred for them. You however, Chris, exhibit
no humanity, empathy or compassion…even to a large segment of your fellow
citizens. You are absolutely intolerant of anyone who didn’t vote the way you
did. You are non-inclusive to anyone who disagrees with you. You are clearly more
concerned about offending terrorists than you are with protecting the lives of
over half of all your countrymen that live in “flyover country.”

In fact, you say they “deserve” to
die, simply because they didn’t vote the way you’d have liked them to. That is pure, unadulterated hatred- and
evil- in their most dangerous forms.

Mr. Cali, the human species would
be better off without you. It’s practically Darwinian.

Daily Trivia Quiz Answer

Today's Answer: Andrew Jackson. ("Poll" got so worked up before the service he apparently had to be removed from the premises, as he was cussing long and loud).

Q) What words appear on the front of the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, alongside the likeness of presidents?

A) "Liberty" and "In God We Trust"

An Ode To Life

Appreciate all you have, as it- and you- will soon be gone. Leave no heartfelt words unspoken, no sweet gesture incomplete, no act of love undone. Love your spouse with passion and abandon, your kids with patience and understanding but also a firm guidance. Love also the truth, no matter how hard. If pursued by enough people with enough courage, it really will set us free.

And don't forget, we didn't ask to be born. We didn't create ourselves. We are not gods. There is a higher power.

Fireworks of the Mind

Write It Up

Whence Shall Come Another?

True Then, True Now

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."- Winston Churchill

Time Well Wasted

The power lies within your hands To do with what you may But the hourglass is filled with sands Of endless yesterdays